BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 146 Page 1 ASSEMBLY THIRD READING AB 146 (Cristina Garcia) As Amended February 25, 2015 Majority vote ------------------------------------------------------------------- |Committee |Votes |Ayes |Noes | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------+------+--------------------+----------------------| |Education |6-0 |O'Donnell, Kim, | | | | |McCarty, Santiago, | | | | |Thurmond, Weber | | | | | | | |----------------+------+--------------------+----------------------| |Appropriations |13-1 |Gomez, Bonta, |Gallagher | | | |Calderon, Chang, | | | | |Daly, Eggman, | | | | |Eduardo Garcia, | | | | |Gordon, Holden, | | | | |Quirk, Rendon, | | | | |Weber, Wood | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Requires the State Board of Education (SBE) to consider including content on the deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression in the next revision of the history-social AB 146 Page 2 science framework and adoption of related materials. Specifically, this bill: 1)Requires the SBE, in the next revision of the history-social science framework after January 1, 2016, to consider providing for the inclusion in that framework, evaluation criteria, and accompanying instructional materials, instruction on the deportation to Mexico during the Great Depression of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States. 2)Encourages the California Department of Education (CDE) to incorporate into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources, age-appropriate materials that include this topic. 3)Encourages the incorporation of oral testimony into the teaching of the deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression. 4)Encourages state and local professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist them in teaching about the deportation of citizens and lawful permanent residents of the United States to Mexico during the Great Depression. EXISTING LAW: 1)Establishes the Instructional Quality Commission (formerly called the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission) as an advisory body to the SBE on matters related to curriculum, instructional materials, and content standards. AB 146 Page 3 2)Requires the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) to consider incorporating into the history-social science framework content on specific historical events, including the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides and the Great Irish Famine of 1845 to 1850. 3)Encourages the Department of Education to incorporate into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources, age-appropriate materials on the Armenian, Cambodian, Darfur, and Rwandan genocides. Encourages the incorporation of survivor, rescuer, liberator, and witness oral testimony into the teaching of human rights, the Holocaust, and genocide. 4)Encourages state and local professional development activities to provide teachers with content background and resources to assist them in teaching about civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust. FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, One-time General Fund costs to the California Department of Education (CDE) of approximately $160,000 to revise the History-Social Science Framework to include the Deportation in the adoption of instructional materials. COMMENTS: Origin of this bill. This bill was the winning proposal in a legislative proposal competition sponsored by the author. It was submitted by a 5th grade class at Bell Gardens Elementary School in the Montebello Unified School District. Draft History-Social Science Framework revision includes references to this event. The draft revision to the AB 146 Page 4 History-Social Science Framework released in September 2014 includes some references to the deportation event. In the chapter of course descriptions for grades Kindergarten through grade five, the following reference is included in a section on Modern California: "Students can also learn about other important events in California's civil rights history, such as ? the forced repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans to Mexico that took place during the Great Depression." In the chapter of course descriptions for grades nine through 12, the following reference is made in a section on the Great Depression: "The economic crisis also led to the Mexican Repatriation Program, in which the Secretary of Labor directed government agents to force nearly 400,000 Mexican migrants (both legal and illegal) out of the country." History-social science framework adoption delayed. The History-Social Science standards currently in use were adopted in 1998, and the most recent framework was published in 2005. The Curriculum Commission (now the IQC) began work revising the History-Social Science Framework in January of 2008. A significant amount of the process had been completed (focus groups, selection of evaluation criteria committee members, five drafting meetings) when in 2009 the state's fiscal emergency led to a statutory suspension (AB 2 X4 (Evans), Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10of the Fourth Extraordinary Session) of instructional materials adoptions and framework revisions until the 2013-14 school year. That suspension was later extended until the 2015-16 school year (SB 70 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee), Chapter 7, Statutes of 2011). The IQC began work again on the revision in July 2014, and released the draft History-Social Science framework for field review in September 2014. The draft generated extensive public comment it generated (nearly 700 comments). The IQC also determined that more subject matter expertise was needed for certain areas (including some mandated for inclusion by legislation), and submitted a budget request for $124,000 to hire AB 146 Page 5 experts through an interagency agreement. These events have caused significant delays in the production of the revised framework. Originally scheduled for adoption in May 2015, this framework is now set to be recommended to the State Board by March 2016, with final publication in Fall 2016. Analysis Prepared by: Tanya Lieberman / ED. / (916) 319-2087 FN: 0000712